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Chicago Food Blogs to Read Now that Eater Chicago Is a No-Go

Too bad Eater Chicago didn't make it. With or without it, though, Chicago has long been a food city. Think Charlie Trotter. Think Rick Bayless. Think hyper-experimental restaurants like Moto and Alinea and locavore-committed new restaurants like mado. Think excellent versions of just about every stripe of ethnic cuisine out there. Yes, this is a food city, all right.

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Dinner Tonight: Braised Potatoes with Garlic

These sound delicious and look beautiful! I might consider adding a sprig of rosemary to the pot at the beginning to boost its effect on the potatoes. I think I would also bash the garlic cloves with the side of a knife [without breaking them up completely], so they would give up more of their oils and flavor.

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Dinner Tonight: Pork Tenderloin with Arugula, Endive and Walnut Vinaigrette

Pork tenderloin is indeed wonderful, for all the reasons you state. I recently used it to make pork medallions with a tarragon mustard sauce. Seeing this delicious sounding recipe, I think I'll have to try it next. Of course, when I see Belgian endive and walnuts together, I immediately want to crumble up some blue cheese with it too!

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From Serious Eats

Chicago Food Blogs to Read Now that Eater Chicago Is a No-Go

Too bad Eater Chicago didn't make it. With or without it, though, Chicago has long been a food city. Think Charlie Trotter. Think Rick Bayless. Think hyper-experimental restaurants like Moto and Alinea and locavore-committed new restaurants like mado. Think excellent versions of just about every stripe of ethnic cuisine out there. Yes, this is a food city, all right.

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Dinner Tonight: Braised Potatoes with Garlic

These sound delicious and look beautiful! I might consider adding a sprig of rosemary to the pot at the beginning to boost its effect on the potatoes. I think I would also bash the garlic cloves with the side of a knife [without breaking them up completely], so they would give up more of their oils and flavor.

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Dinner Tonight: Pork Tenderloin with Arugula, Endive and Walnut Vinaigrette

Pork tenderloin is indeed wonderful, for all the reasons you state. I recently used it to make pork medallions with a tarragon mustard sauce. Seeing this delicious sounding recipe, I think I'll have to try it next. Of course, when I see Belgian endive and walnuts together, I immediately want to crumble up some blue cheese with it too!

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Dinner Tonight: Pork Tenderloin with Arugula, Endive and Walnut Vinaigrette

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Chicago Food Blogs to Read Now that Eater Chicago Is a No-Go

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Dinner Tonight: Braised Potatoes with Garlic

All About Braising is one of my favorite cookbooks, and I highly recommend it to everyone. The recipe does call for the peeled and bruised cloves of garlic to be added along with the potatoes. Molly Stevens's original recipe calls for two bay leaves torn in half to be tossed in with the taters and garlic, and her variation that includes rosemary omits the bay leaves and substitutes two sprigs tossed in and cooked with everything else. (That sounds better to me than having raw rosemary sprinkles. Maybe cooking the sprigs and then chopping up some of the leaves for garnish would be best?) Another of her variations is to use three tablespoons of butter instead of olive oil....sounds yummy. I'm not so sure about her suggestion to try substituting a cup of dry white wine for the cup of chicken stock, though.

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Website: http://blue-kitchen.com/

Location: Chicago

About: My food blog, Blue Kitchen, is the mythical restaurant I will never open, because I know it would be punishingly hard work. While the name sounds romantic, it actually comes from the fact that when things go wrong in the kitchen, I curse up a storm.

Favorite foods: To quote my wife, "My favorite food is food."

Last bite on earth: If it's not biting through my tongue in a fiery car crash, I wouldn't mind a nice bite of rare steak seared in butter, the pan deglazed with wine and the sauce drizzled liberally over the steak. Ideally, it would be served in a Paris neighborhood bistro.